Macklin Celebrini scored two goals in a four-point performance and Barclay Goodrow tallied two goals and an assist to lead the host San Jose Sharks to a 6-3 victory over the Calgary Flames on Tuesday.
John Klingberg and Tyler Toffoli also scored for the Sharks, who won a third straight game.
Goaltender Yaroslav Askarov made 27 saves, including a handful early in the third period when the Flames had a chance to pull even.
Blake Coleman, Ryan Lomberg and Nazem Kadri scored for the Flames, who have lost two of three games.
Goalie Dustin Wolf stopped 20 shots.
Goodrow broke the 2-2 tie with 18.4 seconds remaining in a wild first period. Celebrini’s shot was denied, but the loose puck ended up on the line for Goodrow to shove home for his second of the period.
Celebrini added an insurance marker at 2:46 of the third period. After a fantastic spin move, Celebrini shot as he drove to the net. Wolf stopped the attempt but the puck bounced off Celebrini’s leg and into the cage for his 50th point of the season.
He is the third-fastest teenager in league history to reach 50 points in a season (34 games), trailing only Sidney Crosby (28 games) and Wayne Gretzky (32 games).
After Toffoli extended the San Jose lead to 5-2 with a sharp-angled shot with 7:07 remaining for his 300th career tally, Kadri responded 38 seconds later to give Calgary hope.
However, Celebrini’s empty-netter rounded out the scoring and capped an impressive outing.
Klingberg opened the scoring 62 seconds into the clash with a one-timer set up by Celebrini’s cross-ice pass. Klingberg has scored in three straight games and racked up five goals and three assists in a five-game point streak.
Goodrow doubled the lead at the six-minute mark when he pounced on a puck that bounded to the front of the Calgary net after Zack Ostapchuk fired it from his own blueline to the corner of the rink.
The Flames responded with a pair of goals of their own. Coleman put Calgary on the board at 11:01 with a rocket of a one-timer from the right faceoff dot, and Lomberg tied the clash three minutes later with his first goal of the season to snap a 32-game drought.
–Field Level Media
